Correspondences from 1949-1961 between Dr. Aziz Atiya and Archbishop Porphyrios III concerning monastery manuscript project

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Title Correspondences from 1949-1961 between Dr. Aziz Atiya and Archbishop Porphyrios III concerning monastery manuscript project
Alternative Title 0480_023_002_Archbishop_Porphyrios_Sheets
Creator Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Sinai, 1926-1968
Contributor Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Sinai, 1926-1968; Phillips, Wendell, 1921-
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1950-02-02; 1961-01-31; 1949-10-28; 1957-12-19; 1949-08-30; 1949-08-28; 1956-04-05; 1949-10-27
Temporal Coverage 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961
Spatial Coverage Cairo (Egypt); Princeton (N.J.); Alexandria (Egypt)
Subject Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Sinai, 1926-1968; Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 -- Correspondence; Weitzmann, Kurt, 1904-1993; Library of Congress; Preservation and restoration; Preservation; Funding; St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai; Archbishops; Manuscripts
Description Correspondences from 1949-1961 between Dr. Aziz Atiya and Archbishop Porphyrios III concerning monastery manuscript project. Eight documents, eight documents concerning the terms and negotiations for the Mount Sinai manuscript project. Mentions the involvement of the Library of Congress in the photographing and microfilming of the monastery manuscripts
Table of Contents Document 1: Letter dated 2 Feb. 1950, Cairo, Egypt from Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Mount Sinai, to Dr. Aziz Atiya. Written in French. Content of letter includes discussion of payment for photography of monastery library manuscripts. Document 2: Letter dated 31 Jan. 1961 from Archbishop Porphyrios III to Dr. Atiya. Written in English. Letter contains warm regards to Dr. Atiya and family, mentions the work of Dr. Forsyth and Dr. Weitzmann at the monastery. Document 3: Letter dated 28 Oct. 1949, Cairo, Egypt from Archbishop Porphyrios III to Dr. Atiya discussing the terms and payment for starting a project to photograph the manuscripts of the monastery at Mount Sinai. Document 4: Letter dated 19 December 1957 from Dr. Atiya at Princeton University to Archbishop Porphyrios III concerning the visitation of American scholars to the monastery at Mount Sinai. Written in French. Letter states that Dr. Atiya had not received a reply from Archbishop Porphyrios and assumes the letter or the repl
Type Text
Genre Correspondence
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Collection Name 0480_023_002
Collection Number and Name 0480_023_002 Aziz Suryal Atiya Papers
Language eng; fra
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